Sainthood and authority in early Islam : Al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī's Theory of wilāya and the reenvisioning of the Sunnī Caliphate

Author(s)

• Palmer, Aiyub

Bibliographic Information

Sainthood and authority in early Islam : Al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī's Theory of wilāya and the reenvisioning of the Sunnī Caliphate

by Aiyub Palmer

（Studies on Sufism / ed. by Erik S. Ohlander, Florian Sobieroj, v. 5）

Brill, c2020

• : hbk

Note

Bibliography: p. [201]-213

Includes index

Contents of Works

• Wilāya/walāya and the basis of authority in early Islam
• The historical and social context of al-Tirmidhī's life and times
• Wisdom mediates the terrestrial and celestial : Pythagorean wisdom and the non-duality of sainthood
• The theological significance of wilāya
• Al-Tirmidhī's gnoseology of sainthood
• A Ṣūfī by any other name : al-Tirmidhī's relationship to Islamic mysticism

Details

• NCID: BB3052611X
• ISBN:
  • 9789004408302
• LCCN: 2019038005
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engara
• Place of Publication: Leiden ; Boston
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 219 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BP189.33
  • DC23 : 297.6/1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, active 898
  • LCSH : Muslim saints
  • LCSH : Authority -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- History of doctrines
  • LCSH : Islam -- Theology
  • LCSH : Sufism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB28518505